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  2. List of chess variants - Wikipedia

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    No Stress Chess: Marketed for teaching beginners, the piece(s) a player is able to move are determined by drawing from a deck of cards, with each card providing the rules for how the piece may move. Castling and en passant are disallowed. [105] Panic Chess: Player selects a piece to move, but the target square is randomized from all possible ...

  3. Chess variant - Wikipedia

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    The origins of the chess family of games can be traced to the game of chaturanga during the time of the Gupta Empire in India. [2] Over time, as the game spread geographically, modified versions of the rules became popular in different regions. In Sassanid Persia, a slightly modified form became known as shatranj. Modifications made to this ...

  4. Tie-breaking in Swiss-system tournaments - Wikipedia

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    In chess, where results are simply win/loss or draw, strength of schedule is the idea behind the methods based on the games already played: that the player that played the harder competition to achieve the same number of points should be ranked higher. In other games, results may supply more data used for breaking ties.

  5. Swiss-system tournament - Wikipedia

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    The Monrad system used in chess in Denmark is quite simple, with players initially ranked at random, and pairings modified only to avoid players meeting each other twice. [5] The Norwegian system has an optional seeding system for the first-round pairings, and within a score group, the pairing algorithm endeavours to give players alternating ...

  6. Staunton chess set - Wikipedia

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    A modified Staunton chess set, described in the FIDE Laws of Chess, [13] is used for the blind and visually impaired. In such a set, the black pieces are differentiated from the white pieces by a small point/spike atop the pieces, and the dark squares are raised above the light squares to allow the user to feel the board and pieces to ...

  7. Fast chess - Wikipedia

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    The World Chess Federation (FIDE) divides time controls for chess into "classical" time controls, and the fast chess time controls.As of July 2014, for master-level players (with an Elo of 2400 or higher) the regulations state that at least 120 minutes per player (based on a 60-move game) must be allocated for a game to be rated on the "classical" list; [2] for lower-rated players, this can be ...

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